I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be.…

Cormac McCarthy
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). No Country for Old Men, p.174, Pan Macmillan
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